Maps Of The Week
Brick Street View is an incredible transformation of Google Maps too Street View into a Lego themed populace of plastic bricks.
Brick Street View is the operate of Einar Öberg, the creator of the awesome Urban Jungle Street View, which allows yous to encounter your street transformed into a jungle. Brick Street View makes role of the same undocumented depth information stored inward Street View - exclusively this fourth dimension inward social club to carry yous to Legoland. Both apps role the 3d depth information to create a depth map which tin compass the axe live used to plot geometry too sprites inward the 3d infinite of the Street View panorama.
In Brick Street View the Google Maps Street View panoramas are pixelated to compass them that Lego brick look. The images are too thence enhanced amongst niggling Lego trees, cars too other figures. Even the roads bring been transformed into a Lego base.
For a long fourth dimension I've been waiting for soul to animate edifice historic catamenia information to create a visualization of a metropolis growing through time. That hold off is at in 1 lawsuit over.
Amsterdam Growing Over Time is an incredible animated map which shows how the metropolis of Amsterdam has developed too grown from a few houses inward the 17th century into the dynamic metropolis it is today. Click on the play push too lookout equally the city's edifice footprints are added chronologically to the map based on each building's age.
The information for the buildings comes from the Construction too Address Database - BAG. This database provides the historic catamenia of buildings throughout the Netherlands. Some of the buildings inward the database are apparently newer buildings which bring been built inward the same location too bring replaced older buildings. However Amsterdam has plenty historical buildings even thence standing for the animated map to furnish a pretty accurate movie of how Amsterdam has grown over the centuries.
Flights Over Your Neighborhood is a rattling clever map which tin compass the axe present all the scheduled flights flying over your location too the amount of dissonance pollution that yous volition suffer. Unfortunately the map exclusively plant if your neighborhood is inward Berlin. However, if yous don't alive inward Berlin, the map is even thence fun to play with.
Enter your address into the application too the map shows the actual routes of all the flights from Berlin airports that volition live flying over your neighborhood today. All the flights for the 24-hour interval are displayed on a 3D map past times altitude. The map is shown amongst an oblique sentiment which yous tin compass the axe rotate to larn a existent feel of the height of each of the flights' paths over your home.
If yous pick out a flying path on the map yous tin compass the axe sentiment details on the plane's estimated time, altitude, too the amount of dissonance the private aircraft emits (measured inward decibels). The scale beneath the map shows how much dissonance pollution yous tin compass the axe await for the 24-hour interval inward comparing to other areas inward Berlin-Brandenburg.
Here's a novel map manner to add together to your collection of favorite base of operations maps. I intend its security to assume that the Lichtenstein map is inspired past times the famous pop fine art painter too non the High German municipality of the same name.
The map emulates Roy Lichtenstein's role of thick outlines, bold colors too copious dots. It's also the second map I've seen to successfully role the much maligned Comic Sans equally the font for the map labels.
The map is the operate of Katie Kowalsky, a cartography pupil at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was designed inward Mapbox Studio, the pop map pattern tool, which was also used to create the The Woodcut Map, Space Station Earth, The Pencil Map and the The Pirate Map.
